I’ll admit, I’m no expert on Middle East anything, but doesn’t attacking Lebanon’s military and then criticizing them for not deploying more military (“If the Lebanese government does not deploy its armed forces as a sovereign government should, we will not allow Hezbollah forces to move again onto the other side of the border,” said Defense Minister Mir Peretz of Israel) to get rid of Hezbollah seem a bit bizarre?
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– July 13, 2006Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Lebanon
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Cyrus Farivar is an Iranian-American freelance technology journalist, radio producer and author, currently living in the city of Bonn, Germany.
His book, "The Internet of Elsewhere" – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. 
